Perl Training Australia -
Our Trainers

Perl Training Australia's trainers are the best in Australia. We don't
just use Perl, we are actively involved in Perl's development and design,
are experienced trainers and conference presentors, and have numerous
publications on the Perl language. We are constantly revising our notes
and course materials to ensure that we cover Perl's latest features and
best practices. When your training is performed by Perl Training
Australia, you're getting the best Perl courses possible.

Dr Damian Conway

Damian Conway holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science and is an Honorary Associate
Professor with the School of Computer Science and Software Engineering at
Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.

Damian was the winner of the 1998, 1999, and 2000 Larry Wall Awards for
Practical Utility. He is a member of the technical committee for The Perl
Conference, a former columnist for The Perl Journal, and author of the books
"Object Oriented Perl" and "Perl Best Practices".

In 2001 Damian received The Perl Foundations inaugural "Perl Development Grant"
and spent 20 months working on projects for the betterment of Perl.

Most of his time is currently spent working with Larry Wall on the design of
the new Perl 6 programming language and producing explanatory documents
exploring Larry's design decisions.

Paul Fenwick

Paul Fenwick, BSc, has more than ten years of commercial
experience with Perl, and over eight years experience in teaching
Computer Science. He is a writer for
The Perl Journal,
and maintains Perl's Finance::Quote, Proc::UID, and
Business::Payroll::AU::PAYG modules.

Paul is a regular presenter at Melbourne
Perl Mongers, a contributor to the Perl 5 core, and an avid
developer. He has used Perl to produce a diverse range of
applications across a range of areas, including system administration,
monitoring, business and finance, web portals, encryption,
statistics, mail processing, and games.

Paul is involved in improving Perl's features for operating in
high-security environments. He is editor of the Perl Commercial
Services category for the Open Directory
Project

Jacinta Richardson

Jacinta Richardson, BE(Hons), BSc is both the training coordinator
of Perl Training Australia, and a senior trainer. She has more than 10 years of
commercial Perl and teaching experience. Jacinta is a qualified software
engineer, specialising in course development, requirements analysis and client
liaison.